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This is the order in which they appear in the content of the book. The songs are not numbered within the pages nor are the pages numbered. Numbers have been added for organizational purposes only. Round bracketed information indicates extra markings added to pieces while square brackets indicate words that were questionably illegible. These indicate dates as Frances Jackson, who signed and dated the front of the book December 31, 1928 married to become Frances Mary Montgomery in June of 1929 thus the initials FMM. These initials may but do not necessarily indicate original compositions.

An index of songs are numbered and listed in the inside cover of the book (pictured). These do not exactly match up with the actual order of the songs as displayed chronologically throughout this databasing.

What is this?

An Ethnomusicalogial transcription of folk song lyrics from an original 1928 source scribed by Frances Jackson of Wingham, Ontario, Canada. Transcription done by her great grand daughter, a Master of Arts candidate at York University in Toronto - Jacklin Falconer. December 2008.